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Eparchius Avitus ( c. 385 – after 17 October 456 or in 457 ) was Western Roman Emperor from 8 or 9 July 455 to 17 October 456.
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* Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, " Eparchius Avitus 5 ", Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, pp. 196 – 198.
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In 470 or 472, he was elected to succeed Eparchius in the bishopric of Auvergne ( Clermont, now Clermont-Ferrand ).
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Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus ( c. 470 – February 5, 523 ) was a Latin poet and archbishop of Vienne in Gaul.
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His mother Julia Avita Mamaea was the second daughter of Julia Maesa and Syrian noble Julius Avitus and maternal aunt of Emperor Elagabalus.
Avitus of Vienne: Letters and Selected Prose.
As a private citizen, he was probably named Sextus Varius Avitus Bassiansus.
His grandmother Julia Maesa was the widow of the Consul Julius Avitus, the sister of Julia Domna, and the sister-in-law of emperor Septimius Severus.
* 455 – Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 456 – Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian ( comes domesticorum ), defeats near Piacenza ( Northern Italy ) the Roman usurper Avitus.
* 456 – The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Spain with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc.
* 456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
* 455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
Born Varius Avitus Bassianus on May 16, 205, known later as M. Aurelius Antonius, he was appointed at an early age to be priest of the sun God, Elagabalus, represented by a phallus, by which name he is known to historians ( his name is sometimes written " Heliogabalus ").
The last indication that the Goths whose king reigned at Toulouse considered themselves Vesi is found in a panegyric on Avitus by Sidonius Apollinaris dated 1 January 456.
* Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus and Titus Statilius Maximus become Roman Consuls.
* Maximus appoints Avitus, most trusted general, to the rank of magister militum and sends him on an embassy to Toulouse to gain support of the Visigoths.
* September 21 – Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army.
* Emperor Avitus sends a Germanic naval expedition under command of Ricimer to defend Sicily.
Backed by his popularity, he gains the consent of the Senate for an expedition against Avitus.
* October 5 – The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of Avitus, invade Spain with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by their kings Chilperic I and Gondioc.
* October 17 – Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian ( comes domesticorum ), defeats near Piacenza ( Northern Italy ) the usurper Avitus.
They compel him to renounce the purple and Avitus is oblige to become bishop of Piacenza.
He married Julia Soaemias, and was the supposed father of Varius Avitus Bassianus, the later Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus.
Meanwhile Hormisdas reported to Avitus of Vienne that an additional number of Balkan bishops had entered into relations with Rome, and Bishop John of Nicopolis, who was also the archbishop of Epirus, had broken communion with Constantinople and resumed it with Rome.
A prominent general of the Late Roman army, Majorian deposed Emperor Avitus in 457 and succeeded him.
It is not known if Majorian expected to succeed him ; the new Emperor was, in fact, the Gallic-Roman noble Avitus, who had the support of the Visigoths.
Both Majorian, comes domesticorum, and Ricimer, comes, initially supported Avitus, but when the Emperor lost the loyalty of the Italian aristocracy, the two generals revolted against him.
First Majorian and Ricimer killed Remistus, the magister militum entrusted by Avitus with the defence of the capital, Ravenna.
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* July 9 – Avitus is proclaimed Roman emperor at Toulouse, and later recognised by the Gallic chiefs in Viernum ( near Arles ).
* February 5 – Avitus, archbishop of Vienne
* Ralph W. Mathisen, " Resistance and Reconciliation: Majorian and the Gallic Aristocracy after the Fall of Avitus ," Francia 7 ( 1979 ) pp. 597 – 627.
* Gerald E. Max, " Political Intrigue during the Reigns of the Western Roman Emperors Avitus and Majorian ," Historia 28 ( 1979 ) pp. 225 – 237.
Avitus had two sons, Agricola ( 440 – after 507, a vir inlustris ) and Ecdicius Avitus ( later patricius and magister militum under Emperor Julius Nepos ) and a daughter Papianilla ; she married Sidonius Apollinaris, whose letters and panegyrics remain an important source for Avitus ' life and times.
Major source for Avitus ' life until his rise to the throne is the panegyric written in occasion of his consulate by Sidonius Apollinaris ( 431 – 486 ):
* Mathisen, Ralph W., " Avitus ( 9 / 10 July 455 – 17 / 18 October 456 )", De Imperatoribus Romanis
Sidonius Apollinaris refers to Septimania as " theirs " during the reign of Avitus ( 455 – 456 ), but Sidonius is probably considering Visigothic settlement of and around Toulouse.
* 457 – Avitus is deposed by the magister militum Ricimer and killed.
Julia Avita Mamaea ( 14 or 29 August after 180 – 235 ) was the second daughter of Julia Maesa, a powerful Roman woman of Syrian origin and Syrian noble Julius Avitus.
* Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus ( 157 – 158 )
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